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Living Wage

Today, over a billion working people worldwide –1/3 of all workers – are estimated to earn less than they need to afford a decent standard of living.

Ensuring a living wage across your workforce reduces inequalities and builds more resilient supply chains.

By paying living wages, you can improve productivity and gain important advantages:

  • Reduce staff turnover and absenteeism, increase retention and motivation, attract new talent and increase staff productivity
  • Improve supply chain relationships, performance, resilience and transparency
  • Create a pathway to tackle poverty and reduce inequalities 
  • Demonstrate a commitment to respecting and promoting the human rights of workers

Living Wage Action

Target 1

100 per cent of employees across the organization earn a living wage by 2030.

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Target 2

Establish a joint action plan(s) with contractors, supply chain partners and other key stakeholders to work towards achieving living wages and/or living incomes with measurable and time-bound milestones.

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No matter where you are on your living wage journey, we can help. Our action guides will show you how you can make the biggest, fastest impact for 2030.

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Want to help your organization take action but not already a participant of the United Nations Global Compact? No problem. The UN Global Compact provides a framework to guide all businesses regardless of size, complexity or location. You can express your interest here in a few simple steps.

Accountable Companies

The Forward Faster initiative aims to increase accountability and transparency by calling for companies to publicly declare their commitments and highlight the actions they will undertake to meet the targets. Companies committing to the targets will be required to report on progress annually to the UN Global Compact.

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